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Bible stories are the same way, we've just heard them a million times so they don't seem weird
Its almost like nonsensical parables are a recurring theme in religions in general and we shouldn't be assuming a bunch of mystical morons from a thousand years ago knew any better.
A lot of the "nonsensical" comes from translation issues.
You're not a Hebrew farmer living in the middle east 2000 years ago, and the parable has been translated from ancient Hebrew to Greek, then to Latin, then finally into English.
The same goes for buddhist parables
I've read that some of these parables originally had clever word play.
That's a really good point, thanks for bringing that up